Meyer was apprehensive at first and doubted ABC would get away with making a television film on nuclear war without the censors diminishing its effect.

Meyer and Papazian also made trips to the ABC censors, and to the United States Department of Defense during this time.

The first major cut was made to the film that could be called " censorship ": censors forced ABC to cut an entire scene of a child having a nightmare about nuclear holocaust and then sitting up, screaming.

In fact, Alice in Wonderland aired as the second episode of Walt Disney's Disneyland TV series on ABC in 1954, in a severely edited version cut down to less than an hour.

On the hit ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy, Monica appeared in an episode of the second season titled " Into You Like A Train ," in which she played Bonnie, a patient who was severely injured in a massive train accident.

Speculation was that had Rozelle signed with Hughes, many ABC affiliates would have pre-empted the network's Monday lineup in favor of the games, severely damaging potential ratings.

Until December 2006, 612 ABC Brisbane's studios were located on Coronation Drive in the Brisbane inner-city suburb of Toowong ( a location severely damaged by water in the 1974 Brisbane floods ).

Miller / Boyett and Bickley-Warren were dissatisfied with ABC's plan, as they were certain their show's ratings would severely drop on Saturday nights ( ABC had previously damaged the ratings of Miller / Boyett's Perfect Strangers when they moved it to Saturdays for a time in 1992 ).

Produced by Nelvana for ABC, the violence of the prime-time series was substantially toned down and the gore was omitted.

ABC insisted that the violence be toned down for network television and that a laugh track be included ( although some versions do not have this track or had it removed ; Spencer found it offensive that the audience be told when to laugh and was furious over the decision ), but agreed to cast Spencer's first choice for the lead character, the classically trained actor David Rasche.

In 1979, MCA Records purchased ABC Records, absorbed some of its artists, and then shut the label down.

ABC then offered the project to two other directors, who both turned it down.

" On Monday, August 30, 1982, ABC shut down Rusty's IGA supermarket in Lawrence's Hillcrest Shopping Center from 7 a. m. until 2 p. m. to shoot a scene representing panic buying.

* May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.

* ABC 7 Chicago shoots down massacre theory from the book " Get Capone "

True Hollywood Story episode featuring Dynasty, former ABC executive Ted Harbert stated, " The truth is we didn't really believe that we had this thing done as a hit until Joan Collins walked down that courtroom aisle.

In 2011, ABC aired a primetime special, Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, that counted down the best films chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and People.

In 2011, ABC aired a primetime special, Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, that counted down the best movies chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by both ABC and People.

Hoberman said that ABC wanted Richards for the Monk role, but Richards turned it down.

In 2011, ABC aired a primetime special, Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time that counted down the best movies chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and People.

In 1986, Arledge stepped down as president of ABC Sports.

In 1970, after her film roles dwindled, and after turning down the role of Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch, a role that ultimately went to her best friend, Florence Henderson, Jones was more than happy to be the producers ' first choice to audition for the lead role of Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family, an ABC sitcom based on the real-life musical family The Cowsills.

This led to a situation where a successful company could be closed down through no fault of its own ; to prevent this the governing body of ITV, the Independent Television Authority, ordered a merger with the existing London weekday company Rediffusion, with ABC having majority control of the new operation.

On November 22, 2005, Koppel stepped down from Nightline after 25 years with the program and left ABC after 42 years with the network.

The L. A. Times described the show as " ridiculous " and stated " It's not a spinoff, it's a clone — as close a replica as ABC and the Dynasty producers could concoct, right down to the credits.

Later, when ABC News anchorman Frank Reynolds, a friend of Brady's, was forced to retract the report, he angrily stated on-air to his staff, " C ' mon, let's get it nailed down!

Questioning the ITA's decision Rediffusion attempted to slow down the merger: Only the threat of giving the licence solely to ABC made it relent.

When a serial killer nicknamed ABC taunts Poirot in veiled letters and kills people in alphabetical order, Poirot employs an unconventional method to track down ABC.

On December 31, 2006, Ferguson began hosting Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin ' Eve with Ryan Seacrest on ABC for the pre-taped Hollywood segments after the New Year Ball came down in Times Square.

In the fall of 1987, ABC cut the show down to an hour.

Commercials aired several months in advance, ABC distributed half a million " viewer's guides ", which discussed the dangers of nuclear war and prepared the viewer for the graphic scenes of mushroom clouds and radiation burn victims.

The sixth and seventh introductions were used on the ABC Saturday Morning airings, and contained mostly scenes from those episodes, starting with Darkwing tiptoeing up the Audubon Bay Bridge.

To make room for the longer commercial breaks during modern airings, ABC cut two scenes, which were later restored when aired in conjunction with You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown:

The series aired on Nick at Nite from 2004 to 2009, as well as sister network ( through Nickelodeon ) The N ( now TeenNick ) with portions of scenes that were removed from other syndicated airings, with parts of scenes kept in other syndicated airings removed due to time constraints ; the series was dropped from its schedule in September 2009 after Disney / ABC purchased the rights to the show.

ABC / Disney aired the film in the United States without commercial interruption, adding a disclaimer stating that it was " not a documentary ", that various scenes were invented, and that narrative “ time compression ” was used.

Poirot deduces that ABC scouts the crime scenes dressed as a salesman.

Brooks and Henry proposed the show to ABC, where network officials called their show " un-American " and demanded a " lovable dog to give the show more heart " and scenes showing Maxwell Smart's mother.

These scenes were absent from the theatrical and home video versions of the film, but were present in TV airings on the USA Network and ABC Family:

Many of Rankin / Bass ' films are shown on ABC Family during their December " 25 Days of Christmas " seasonal period, though several are heavily edited with scenes shortened and entire songs removed.

The station and nearby MetLife Plaza were a regular CG composite as location shots between scenes in ABC series Ugly Betty.

McDonough was set to star in the ABC dramedy Scoundrels, but was fired for refusing to do sex scenes for the show.

When the film airs on ABC Family, many of the film's deleted scenes ( such as Mollie threatening Mikey with a spanking if he takes his sister away again ) are shown.

An occasional special would feature The Muppets, property of ABC, engaging in comical scenes with the design team.

To make room for their long commercial breaks during modern airings, ABC made cuts to two scenes ( in 2005, it was extended for the network television premiere of Finding Nemo ; but now, it was edited again in order to make room for He's a Bully, Charlie Brown and the Dancing with the Stars results show ):

Instead, this behind the scenes special hosted by regular contestant Hamish Blake took a tour through the studios and dressing rooms of the ABC studios in Elsternwick and conducting interviews with show personnel.

Later behind the scenes that year, engineers assembled the new ABC High Definition satellite equipment to ready the station for ABC's foray into HD with Monday Night Football.

The European theatrical version is more explicit than the one broadcast on ABC, showing Borden nude in the scenes where she kills her parents.

The track " Sleepy Shores " was also used as incidental music in some of the courting scenes from the 1970s ABC TV drama series, Certain Women.

* Re-edited scenes of Ice Age: The Meltdown were shown in Airhead candy commercials on several kids ' channels and programs, such as the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, ABC Kids on ABC, and more.

In the final scenes of the episode, the Griffin family is seen watching a television program called TV's Bloopers, a reference to the 1984 ABC and NBC television series TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes.

To make room for more commercial advertisements, ABC cuts off the following scenes in this special: